Beck Quotes

When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.

Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

'Even Flow' is the best to play live because of the long solos. It starts out slow and builds, and, depending on what the audience does, I can reflect that in the solo.

I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does.

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

I love Bill Finn's stuff. It's so rewarding for an actor. It's conversational but intricate. He writes some beautiful, simple songs and melodies, but he also writes this cacophony for people.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

Fans want real songs, they want real experiences, and they want real instruments.

I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of everything.

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

I love working in front of American crowds.

The Apollo seats 3,600 people: I could hear them making a huge noise for Milton Jones and Lee Mack. If the audience doesn't make the same amount of noise for you, you feel like you've failed.

I think that metal has always been, in my opinion, the most passionate form of music, and it only makes sense to actually be passionate about what you're saying when you're delivering music to people, whether it's through an album or for a live show.

The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

When I go back to seek inspiration - whether it be from Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, the Beatles, Hank Williams, Ray Charles or Bob Dylan - it's from the performance. Those artists are in the studio playing their instrument and singing. There's no going back and redoing the vocals.

There's nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do, and there's nothing better than when you get that connection with the audience.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

The Apollo Theatre was a difficult audience, and if they didn't like you, they would let you know. Luckily, they liked me.

We were playing shows still when we wrote 'Phoebe' and 'Rock All Night.' We got to test those songs in a live setting, so it was nice recording them and knowing which ones really resonated with the crowd.